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Show POM DUE TO FALL SOOH i Like Predecessors, Premier 1 Cannot Wring Money From Germans i . By II. 1. 1 M BmP s-i iiU t able (,. ih. Mainlai.l-I am- incr. (Copyright. 1022. by The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner PARIS, Juno 3. The Polncare ministry min-istry has entered upon Its decline The only question now Is whether th" premier will prefer to drag along through The Hague conference or j yield his power before the reaction ugalnst him sets In in earnest This week's events caught the government gov-ernment in a dilemma Germany's "acceptance" of the reparations com-mission's com-mission's demands officially Is ac- knowledged to bo entirely unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory and yet It has been swallowed bv the Qiial O'Orsay It simply menns Germany will pay If she can borrow, the wherewithal, otherwise not. Poln- ..ire'- :i, .ii'.inr.. of this proposition amounts to an acknowledgement that he believes nerrnany cannot pay wnn her own resources and this Is virtual' endorsement of gteyne'a thesis lately. adopted by Lloyd George. i r GET MONET. Thus Polncare, the hope of the strongest group, has gone the way of j his predecessors, Mlllerand. Loygu?s and Brlandi and Is forced to admit j that money cannot be wrung from Qtrmany by anything short of mlU-j tary force. From all indications the, majority of the chamber has reached the same melancholy conclusion. This Signifies that Polnare. and what ho, supposedly stands for. have become, useless and so logic demands that a new government he established. BAR! nor SUCCESSOR. polio arc has '...ion In office five. 1 months and can have two or three more inglorious months should he so desire, but he probably won't. Present Pres-ent conditions point to Barthou as ht , successor. He Is a rnan much on the, Polncare type but decidedly morn' flexible and has the advantage of Iui.k as'ocl.ition with the Liberals of thc left it will be recalled that h.-, torpedoed the Briand cabinet when Brland was at Cannes by calling tho iblnet together and drafting a strong' remonstrance against the urogram tho then premier and Lloyd George were working out. For this he and certain of his colleagues obtained posts1 In the! Polncare cabinet Barthou is not noted for his political fidelity and it commonly said that Polncare sent1 him to Genoa to prevent him doing mischief at home. At any rate Poln-carc Poln-carc never gave him plenary powers! but reserved a veto over him and exercised ex-ercised It almost dally. POINCARE BXiAM D Tims he prevented Barthou whom j a brilliant political writer calls "the man with the habit of treachery" I .run. compromising me ministry ana j from becoming an outstanding f Igure i at the conference. But there Is little satisfaction here with France's part at Genoa aud Polncaro Is blamed i more than Karthou who followed or-dvrs or-dvrs given from hour to hour over the I I private w;re which linked tho French I legation with the Qual D'Orsay. I i . Q oh politics are in a state of un-Ci un-Ci r teiDt), due to tho drift toward 11b-Oral 11b-Oral gnd pacifist views indicated In ih... recen lot .1 olectlone. The present chambei was elected in a period of patriotic hysteria Immediately after the war. but in view of the unmlstak-able unmlstak-able reconeolidatlon of rudl.al oppo-Sitlon oppo-Sitlon members ;. re beginning to trim then -alls and prepare for the 1924 elections. The next ministry will lean heavily on the Left o' the cham-her cham-her and will follow Briand' pnMcy. |